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FARMĀNFARMĀ, FĪRŪZ MĪRZĀ NOṢRAT-AL-DAWLA
Shireen Mahdavi
(1817-1886), sixteenth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā and grandson of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah. His political and military career flourished in the reigns of his brother Moḥammad Shah (834-48) and his nephew Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96).
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FARMĀNFARMĀ, ḤOSAYN-ʿALĪ MĪRZĀ
Gavin R. G. Hambly
(1789-1835), the fifth son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah, long-time governor of Fārs, and briefly the self-styled king of Persia.
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FARMĀNFARMĀ, MAḤMŪD KHAN NĀṢER-AL-MOLK
ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN NAVĀʿĪ
(b. ca. 1828-29; d. Tehran, 1887), high-ranking official in the reign of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96).
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FARMING
Mohammad-Said Nouri Naini
in Persia. In the mid-1990s Persian agriculture accounted for over 25 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 25 percent of employment, and 33 percent of non-oil exports. It also met 75 percent of domestic food requirements and 90 percent of the needs of agricultural industries in the country.
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FARNAH
Cross-reference
See FARR(AH).
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FARNŪDSĀR
Cross-Reference
See NAẒEM-AL-AṬEBBĀʾ.
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FARŌḴŠI
Mary Boyce and Firoze Kotwal
the name of a Zoroastrian ceremony for departed souls, also called Farošīn, in Irani Zoroastrian dialect Parošīn.
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FARR(AH)
Gherardo Gnoli
Avestan Xᵛarənah, lit. “glory,” according to the most likely etymology and the semantic function reconstructed from its occurrence in various contexts and phases of the Iranian languages.
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FARR(AH) ii. ICONOGRAPHY OF FARR(AH)/XᵛARƎNAH
Abolala Soudavar
The core myth that reveals the characteristics of farr is the myth of Jamšid in the Avesta. Empowered by his farr, Jamšid rules the world, but loses it when he strays from the righteous path.
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FARRANT, FRANCIS
Denis Wright
(1803?-1868), Colonel, British soldier and diplomat.